He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his 'nonviolent struggle for civil rights.' On April 4, 1968, King was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. In his campaign for racial equality, King gave hundreds of speeches, and was arrested more than 20 times.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration. Under King's leadership, the SCLC promoted nonviolent resistance to segregation, often in the form of marches and boycotts. Martin Luther Kings I have a dream speech August 28 1963. In 1957, he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC), which became a leading civil rights organization. Like his father and grandfather, King studied theology and became a Baptist pastor. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, in 1929. His speech became famous for its recurring phrase “I have a dream.” He imagined a future in which “the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners' could 'sit down together at the table of brotherhood,” a future in which his four children are judged not 'by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.' King's moving speech became a central part of his legacy. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., took the podium at the March on Washington and addressed the gathered crowd, which numbered 200,000 people or more.
